In the modern era I think the best batsman to have played in India was Ponting.

07-01-2013, 03:57 PM

kyear2

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Originally Posted by mohammad16

Lara is probably the most underrated All time great ever.

I would put him as the best batsmen of all time after Bradman factoring in the entertainment value and sheer domination of spin. Easily the most exciting batsmen ever. The most frustrating part about Lara is that he actually under achieved, half the time his mind was really not up for it. When on song, I doubt there is a batsmen in history that could match his domination apart from Viv, but Lara was more exciting to watch than Viv.

I agree to the extent that he is now almost disregarded as being what he is, and that is one of the elite batsmen who can be legimately argued to be the best after Bradman.
On his day and his mind right, there could never have been a better batsman.

Top tier batsmen from each country (Crowe not quite fitting that bill) in order, more or less.

07-01-2013, 08:52 PM

Slifer

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Originally Posted by kyear2

I agree to the extent that he is now almost disregarded as being what he is, and that is one of the elite batsmen who can be legimately argued to be the best after Bradman.
On his day and his mind right, there could never have been a better batsman.

I too think that Lara somewhat underachieved and had he been as disciplined as say an SRT he couldve achieved so much more. Even so, one thing I noticed in Lara's record is that he has very few not outs. i think that's a product of him being in a piss poor WI batting line up and having to hit out whenever he was running out of partnersmore often that not. If Lara had even half the not outs of most batsmen his average wouldve been well over 55.

08-01-2013, 04:12 PM

kyear2

Part of what made Lara great was his risk taking and for the most part not playing for average. He was a true genius.

Part of what made Lara great was his risk taking and for the most part not playing for average. He was a true genius.

True that. Had he been like a Chanderpaul who knows what his average might of been. Considering they both played for the same crappy team over most of their careers Lara could have easily pulled a Chanderpaul and piled up the not outs my guess his averagewould have been around 60 odd. Lets see Chandershas like 40 odd not outs if Lara had about half that by my calculation his average wouldve been around 57. And some people call him selfish !!!